Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Why I'll never be a modern quilter

Without getting all pernickety about what is and isn't a modern quilter - the best definition? "I know it when I see it" - I know for a fact that I am not one. Because when I get at a loose end, or I just want to make a quilt for the hell of it, I always always end up with traditional blocks in random scraps. It is never restrained or designed or simple or graphic or any of those modern things. I just really love the old blocks pieced from god-knows-what material. I think they are friendly, and warm, which is what you want quilts to be (well, it's what I want quilts to be, others may differ).

So when I couldn't decide what to do next I got an overwhelming urge to do a king-size log cabin with big fat 2 1/2" strips and a dismayingly traditional red square in the centre.



I've done 25 of these - because the blocks are so big that's enough for a large quilt - and my 2 1/2" strip bag is just about empty. I will arrange them in the gaspingly ordinary straight furrows and border them with whatever fabric I have enough of. Probably in brown....

3 comments:

  1. You can't beat a log cabin quilt! I think seeing the amazing variety of vintage log cabin quilts was one of the first things that attracted me to quilting.

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  2. everyone has to do the log cabin pattern at least once. if for nothing else but to get it out of your system. i happen to like the pattern very much and will do it again. have made a couple so far. one thing i'm going to have to get out of my system is a whole cloth quilt.

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  3. I'd be so pleased with myself if I'd done something so ordinary (?) (sigh).

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